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An unknown number was showing up on her calling ID. The phones ring tone cutting through the silence of the apartment. Kates hand was shaking when she picked up her buzzing phone from the kitchen counter.
"Hello?" her voice breaking at the last syllable. Clearing her throat she tried again "Hello? Who's speaking?"
"Uhhh Miss Beckett I'm pretty sure you know why I am calling." A deep manly voice answered.
No was Kates immediately thought. Please god no.
"What do you want?" she spitted out.
"I want to see you suffer. I want to break you. I want that you to feel so desperate that you WANT me to kill you."
Kate could feel the tears streaming down her face. She knew the day would come, the day where he would call and make her pay for everything she had done. Angrily she wiped the tears away. Even though he couldn't see her she didn't want to look weak.
Finding her voice again she hissed "So what is it this time? Aren't you done with playing games by now? Why don't you just give me a date and time and we settle this once and for all?!"
"Nooo that wouldn't be so much fun." The voice on the other end replied "I really enjoy our little game, Kate. So this time I want you to do the one thing you're most afraid of. I want to take something away from you- something you can't live without. "
Rick. He's gonna take away Rick. She bit her lip really hard to not let out the cry that was building up inside her.
"Any guess what that may be Detective?" she could hear the smirk in his voice and felt sick to her stomach.
"No? Okay let me give you a hint. He's not with you at the Moment. His name starts with a R."
Kate went silent not giving in. He was watching her. How?
"Still no idea? You disappoint me, Kate. Let me spell it out for you then: R-I-C-H-A-R-D C-A-S-T-L-E!"
Kate had to steady herself with gripping the edge of the kitchen counter as hard as she could.
"Please don't hurt him." She begged. He had already started to break her without doing a single thing. "Please" she said again. It made her feel miserable to know how desperate she sounded, that she was already on her knees pleading for way out of this situation. But there was none.
"I love to hear you begging, Kate. But I'm not the one who's gonna hurt him. You will do it all by yourself." He chuckled and Kate wished he would stand infront of her so she could punch him in the face.
"You're breaking everything off between you two. You'll throw him out of the precinct. You'll end your relationship. You'll not contact him in any way ever again. Did I make myself clear?" he growled.
Kate was stunned. Her worst nightmare had just become reality and she didn't know what to do against it.
"How?" she whispered on a faint whisper "How am I supposed to do that?"
She heard the man breathing in and out over the line. "I don't care. But you have 24 hours." And then the only thing Kate heard was a click. The line went dead, leaving her with her phone in one hand the other pressed to her stomach and she slowly sank to the floor burying her face in her hands and breaking out in sobs.
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